By: Credentialed

Your comment is stunningly ignorant and/or deliberately misleading, health_”truth”_revealed. Quick hits, because I don’t want to waste time on a troll like you, but because a different reader may wonder about what you’ve said…

1)Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated are unethical to perform as it would require withholding a valuable medical intervention from some people. Every vaccine has, however, undergoes extensive pre- and post-marketing testing and monitoring.

2)Who has “completely debunked” cohort studies? You? You don’t even know the difference between methyl mercury and ethyl mercury (see #3). You rig the question by dismissing evidence as “debunked” when you haven’t demonstrated such and then claim there’s no honest evidence. Who’s got the honesty issue here?

3)Thiomersal is not methyl mercury; it’s an ethylmercury compound. That’s an important difference. Think of the difference between the consumption of methanol vs. ethanol: both can be dangerous in too great a concentration, but methanol has a higher and more severe danger profile…you’re completely dishonest in this question.

Not to mention that the autism-mercury hypothesis has been completely demolished as without any supporting evidence and contrary to a great number of new studies.

4) Vaccines have a non-zero risk of side-effects. Very rarely do they cause serious side effects. There is always pressure to increase the safety profile of vaccines. While these results are tragic, vaccines will save many, many more lives and the risk-benefit analysis is clearly in favor of avoiding vaccine-preventable illness.

Please provide an example of a medical intervention with demonstrable efficacy that has a 100% safety record…

5) vitamin D activates the immune response far better than a vaccine?
[Citation needed]. I think you’re just making that up.

Why don’t they ever talk about proper nutrition or exercise as well to build immunity
Every doctor I’ve ever known always recommends healthier diets and exercise to their patients. Leading health organizations are always promoting diet and exercise. I think you’ve created a caricature, a straw man, of modern medical professionals. Not honest.

6) You demonstrate profound ignorance of the development of adaptive immunity here. “That argument flies in the face of medicine’s own theory of how vaccines work”? No…it flies in the face of your complete misunderstanding of immunology.

Very few vaccines contain live viruses today. Some include attenuated viruses that lack the capacity to replicate at the level of a wild virus and can only cause a minor “infection” that is rapidly and easily contained by the immune system. There is a very low, but non-zero chance that an attenuated virus vaccine could result in a full infection, but that would require unlikely genetic mutations within the virus. Many vaccines contain only antigens and are thus incapable of causing disease.

7) The virulence of the seasonal flu each year is very different from previous years. Cherry picking the results from one year is akin to pointing to a cooler-than-usual daily weather forecast and claiming it disproves anthropogenic global warming.

8) I’m beginning to wonder if your math skills are as deficient as you knowledge of immunology…provide a peer-reviewed citation supporting this claim and lets discuss it.

9) I love getting a lecture on ethics from someone posting willful misinformation…

10) Yeah…I’m pretty sure your math skills are lacking at this point. Because a still-emerging flu virus has only killed X number by the very beginning of the flu season it’s obviously not dangerous? Is that your argument? If so, it’s stupid.

People, NVIC is a pseudoscience-pushing organization that misinforms the public. It’s not worth going there. health_truth_revealed has revealed only his/her own ignorance.